Chip Caray

I mean, four iconic franchises.

Again, I pinch myself when I think about that.

You're right about our fans.

They're incredibly knowledgeable.

They're incredibly passionate.

They're baseball fans, not just Cardinal fans.

I think the last three years has them frustrated to a degree.

They were ready for change.

Change is coming.

I think they're excited about that.

My mantra for this year and probably 27 is going to be come grow with us.

This is going to be a young team.

It's going to be a team that is going to take some lumps, I think, only because there aren't really super established stars on the team.

We're not the Cubs.

We're not the Braves.

We're not the Dodgers by any stretch of the imagination.

But we've got some really good young talent here and coming that's getting closer by the day.

And I hope that our fans will shrug off the last three years and understand that was the end of one chapter of Cardinals baseball.

And we're starting to write a new one with Heinblum and his staff coming in.

This is a new paradigm and it's going to take some time to be fully implemented and